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ífunih / ifuniha- hair
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lexicon ID #1500 | revised Oct 31 2014
ífunih / ifuniha- • N • hair
Literally: 'growing down'
Derivation: | if-unih-a |
grow-down-DEVERB |
Derivatives (2)
ifunihataxishxíshar "hairbrush"
ifuniheehyákurih "hairpin"
Source: WB 400.7, p.335; Shivshaneen, 1996, (2.2); JPH mat 07:284L
Note: Equiv. to ir(a).
- yáxa páy ifunihaxára paniníxuunak. Look, this long hair is in my acorn soup! [Reference: WB 21: Hair In The Soup 030]
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xas yítha pamuxuunak ífuni umah.
Then one of the boys found a hair in his mush.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
xas upíip,
"pihnîich ifunihaxarah'íshara pami'ífunih."
And he said, "Old man! What long hair you have!"Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
mi'ífunih ipxátihi.
Comb your hair.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about morning activities (LA-03) | read full text
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taahkúnish pamu'ífunih.
Her hair is white.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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Vina mu'ífuni uum taahkúnish.
Vina has white hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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panani'ífunih tóo fiipha.
My hair is gone.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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mu'ífunih káru uum ipshûunkinich.
Her hair is short.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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ipshûunkinach pamu'ífunih.
She has short hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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vâaram pamu'ífunih.
She has long hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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ipshûunkinach pamu'ífunih.
She has short hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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púfaat mu'ífunih.
She has no hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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puptaxátiihtihara pami'ífunih.
You didn't comb your hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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vúra puyávhara panani'ífunih.
My hair is not good.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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vúra úum táay pamu'ífunih,
papúsihich.
The cat has lots of hair.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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papúsihich úum púfaat pamu'ífunih payêem.
The cat doesn't have any hair now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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yáxa páy ifunihaxára paniníxuunak."
Look, this long hair is in my acorn soup!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa uthyúruripaa pa'ífuni pamu'ásipak.
And the man pulled the hair from his basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upiip, "
hôoy páy tu'aramsîip pa'ifunihaxára."
And he said, "Where did this long hair come from?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
káruma uum pa'ifápiit áxak pamu'ífuni upaathrámni papátaravak.
The fact was, the young women had thrown two of their hairs into the soup-baskets.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
páy uum pumi'ífunihara."
This isn't your hair."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
nuu vaa nanu'ífunih.
And they said, "It's our hair.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
víri pamu'ífuni fúrax kích utávahitih.
His hair was decorated on the ends with nothing but woodpecker heads.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
víri pakunpûusur fúrax kích utávahiti pamu'ifunih'ípan.
When they took it off, the ends of (the dog's) hair were decorated with nothing but woodpecker scalps.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
púyava vúra vaa uthiináti papáthraam,
xás kôokinay vúra u'ápiv,
akâay áta mu'ífunih.
So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás upíip, "
yánava púfaat mu'ífunih ápap pamuxváah."
And he said, "I see you have no hair on one side of your head."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
kári xás upéer, "
páy húm mi'ífunih."
And he said, "Is this your hair?"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text -
xás panunu'ífunih vúra xávish mûuk nupákootih,
kíri vâaramas u'if,
panunu'ífunih.
And we whipped our hair with syringa, (thinking), "Let our hair grow long!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
ifunihaxárahsas.
She is long-haired.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text